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(Redirected from Huella de luz) This article is about the 1943 film. For the Gen Hoshino song known as "Traces of Light" in Japanese, see Why (Gen Hoshino song). 1943 Spanish film

Traces of Light
Film poster
Directed by	Rafael Gil
Written by	Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (novel and screenplay)
Starring	Antonio Casal Isabel de Pomés
Cinematography	Alfredo Fraile
Edited by	Juan Pallejá
Music by	Juan Quintero
Release date	22 March 1943 (1943-03-22)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Traces of Light (Spanish: Huella de luz) is a 1943 Spanish comedy film directed by Rafael Gil on his directing debut. It is based on a novel by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez.

Plot

Octavio Saldaña is a poor young dreamer who lives with his elderly mother and is an office worker at Manufacturas Sánchez-Bey. Mr. Bey rewards Octavio for his work by inviting him to spend a few days at a spa. There Octavio meets Lelly, daughter of a cloth manufacture, and to impress her he decides to pass himself off as a millionaire.

Cast

Isabel de Pomés as Lelly Medina
Antonio Casal as Octavio Saldaña
Juan Espantaleón as Sánchez Bey
Camino Garrigó as Madre de Octavio
Juan Calvo as Mike
Fernando Freyre de Andrade as Moke
Mary Delgado as Rosario
Nicolás D. Perchicot as Mayordomo
Ramón Martori as Medina
Julio Infiesta as Jacobito
José Prada as Cañete
Alejandro Nolla as Gerente del hotel
Ana María Campoy as Isabel
Francisco Hernández as Don Eduardo
Joaquín Torréns as Conserje
Fernando Porredón as Emilio

References

Bentley p.94

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9.

External links

Traces of Light at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Rafael Gil
1940s	The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1942) Journey to Nowhere (1942) Traces of Light (1943) Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree (1943) Lessons in Good Love (1944) The Nail (1944) Thirsty Land (1945) The Phantom and Dona Juanita (1945) The Prodigal Woman (1946) The Holy Crown (1947) Don Quixote (1947) The Faith (1947) Mare Nostrum (1948) The Sunless Street (1948) Just Any Woman (1949) Adventures of Juan Lucas (1949)
1950s	Saturday Night (1950) Apollo Theatre (1950) The Great Galeoto (1951) Our Lady of Fatima (1951) The Song of Sister Maria (1952) From Madrid to Heaven (1952) I Was a Parish Priest (1953) He Died Fifteen Years Ago (1954) Judas' Kiss (1954) The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955) The Cock Crow (1955) The Big Lie (1956) Miracle of the White Suit (1956) Let's Make the Impossible! (1958) Luxury Cabin (1959) College Boarding House (1959)
1960s	Litri and His Shadow (1960) Darling (1961) Green Harvest (1961) Rogelia (1962) Queen of the Chantecler (1962) You and Me Are Three (1962) The Blackmailers (1963) Pedrito de Andía's New Life (1965) Currito of the Cross (1965) Samba (1965) Road to Rocío (1966) He's My Man! (1966) Another's Wife (1967) Fruit of Temptation (1968) The Sailor with Golden Fists (1968) A Decent Adultery (1969) Blood in the Bullring (1969)
1970s	The Locket (1970) The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1970) The Green Envelope (1971) The Doubt (1972) Nothing Less Than a Real Man (1972) The Guerrilla (1973) The King is the Best Mayor (1974) The Good Days Lost (1975) Forget the Drums (1975) Death's Newlyweds (1975) The Legion Like Women (1976) Two Men and Two Women Amongst Them (1977) Father Cami's Wedding (1979)
1980s	Spoiled Children (1980) And in the Third Year, He Rose Again (1980) Old Shirt to New Jacket (1982) The Autonomines (1984) The Cheerful Colsada Girls (1984)

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